Don't care still voting for TRUMP 
this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2025
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Rotating a plastic spoon in my mind
Yum I love plastic
🎶 Just a spoons worth of ~~sugar~~ microplastics helps the cognition go down 🎶
"We've discovered ways to drastically increase plastic in the brain"
"You mean neuroplasticity, right"
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deus ex machina deus ex machina deus ex machina
That's fine I wasn't using all doze winkles the uwu microplasties may as well settle in 
Makes me think of a guy who used to eat starburst wrappers until his 20s
ok seriously how the fuck do we avoid cancer and shit from this
are we just fucked
The article recommends reducing single use plastics, and especially trying to avoid plastic around food (using glass for leftovers, not heating up food with plastic wrap on it, etc). Diet is the main source for these plastics.
We are still fucked though.
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love how it ends with a bunch of personal responsibility bs for trying to limit your plastic intake, very cool
Honestly, it's not like policy in any imperial core country ever listens to scientists, so what else are they supposed to say? Buy a gun?
Yeah, obviously they're not going to publish the Names and Addresses bit, but they talk about how plastic production still increasing in the article, so even some milquetoast liberal "contact your representatives" or "boycott plastic companies" would be an improvement
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publications love doing that shit lol. the whole concept of a carbon footprint was invented to make individual people feel personally responsible for climate change even though corporations pollute 100x more.
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As far as we know the plastic is mostly not doing anything and is possibly bioinert (thatd be lucky). We don't have anybody to compare it to though, because everybody on earth including the uncontacted tribes has a ton of plastic in em cause microplastics are in every environment including just the rain and every plant and every animal. Would I say it's good to have the equivalent of a plastic spoon in your brain? No, I'd rather not have it there and I'd rather us stop polluting the environment with more microplastics.
I do feel like we lost this struggle, like long term. It's going to be thousands of years before this stuff starts to break down. We can, hopefully, make it not as bad I guess
Yeah, the silver lining here is that the reason we use plastic for everything (well, the reason beyond "oil stonks go brrrr") is that it doesn't really react to much of anything and is about as inert as a substance can be. And as terrible as it sounds, if there was any massively noticeable interaction between microplastics and our nervous system/bloodstream/neurons/cellular activity/etc we'd probably be dropping dead by the thousands everyday already, barring any future realization that this stuff fucks with our brains like lead exposure.
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Eating more than a spoonfull a day to make sure my brilliant brain is encased in enough plastic to preserve it for future generations 
“Compared to autopsy brain samples from 2016, that’s about 50% higher”
Uh, doesn't that mean that we're also getting more plastic, faster? I think we might be cooked yall
Even if we stop making plastic, there's already massive amounts in the environment.
We're extremely doomed
It seems that way to me. Also:
More than half of all plastic ever made has been made since 2002 and production is on track to double by 2040
We are also making more plastic, at a faster rate 
I think part of the problem is that we're putting plastic into the environment and that's going into the fruit, into the veg, and into the animals, and those are going into us.
No matter how much we reduce plastic around our food we're still ingesting plastic polluting the environment that the plants and animals are not avoiding. And more and more of that plastic is polluting that environment meaning more of it is inevitably going into us.
The only way this is reversed is by reversing plastic in the environment.
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i was told life in plastic was supposed to be fantastic
Life in plastic, it's fantastic. Plastic in life, it's... blithe?
I am not good at this, I have a spoon in my brain.
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The plastic make me think real good.
Plastic makes me feel good 👻
🎶 A plastic man...sleepin in your bed. 🎶
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First I was going to ask if it was a teaspoon or tablespoon, but it’s more akin to the measurement device as opposed to its measured substance.
Jfc.
Yea, when I saw the headline I immediately thought it was a scoop of plastic too.